Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail . |
| 2 | Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’ |
| 3 | An interesting additional finding which is stressed is that it appears that such people are more rather than less likely to exhibit qualities of psychological balance and social responsibility . |
| 4 | However , what is expected is that the Bank of England will require all banks under the Banking Act of 1987 to keep a ratio of ‘ primary liquid assets ’ to some definition of deposit liabilities . |
| 5 | All that is recommended is that experienced , practising teachers be increasingly involved in the selection process . |
| 6 | Another factor which makes the extract easier to process if ( 2c ) is selected is that sentences ( 2c ) and ( 3 ) both start with an element that has already been established before presenting new information . |
| 7 | The relief sought is an order of certiorari , and the principal ground on which relief is sought is that in relation to Winchester the board of Lautro had on 30 October failed to observe the rules of natural justice . |
| 8 | What is missed is that alongside an increase in centralized control has been persistent dissent ; domination — social , economic and ideological — has been maintained only through struggle . |
| 9 | A wide choice of spectrophotometric methods ( absorbance , reflectance , fluorescence , luminescence ) and geometry ( single optical fibre , bundle , bifurcated fibre ) is feasible ; all that is needed is that the biolayer modulates the light path . |
| 10 | What is shown is that crime-rates ( especially for property offences ) were higher during periods of unemployment than of employment . |
| 11 | What is overlooked is that predators also benefit from being concealed from their prey . |
| 12 | What is envisaged is that at least the above six mentioned countries will form a currency union by the end of the decade , while the remaining EC countries enter into an EMS type relationship with the union until they have converged sufficiently to become union members . |
| 13 | What is envisaged is that every client will be informed at the outset that a procedure exists for dealing with " problems " : it is not necessary to mention the word " complaint " at this stage . |
| 14 | The paradox about all this information explosion or whatever it is called is that the speed of its distribution is so high and the actual receiving of it by a human being is so necessarily slow and far more inefficient than it is achieved by other methods , such as reading printed marks on paper . |
| 15 | So it may be the Regional Association or perhaps the local estuary er Sailing Association is first contacted and what will happen er when one is contacted is that you will come into contact with environmentalists and conservationists and not all environmentalists and conservationists are quite as af affable and conciliatory as I am , some can be quite confrontational and therefore there will be the need for a considerable amount of lip biting and self restraint . |
| 16 | He wrote , with reference to the local sign theories of Lotze and Wundt : ‘ The thought upon which this whole theory is based is that the impressions must all be of a conscious nature . |
| 17 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 18 | All that 's known is that Mr Wadland had an appointment with his bank last Wednesday . |
| 19 | What is known is that the bank has lent Pathe $250m to finance the MGM purchase , plus an undisclosed sum linked to the sale of some of the rights to the studio 's film library . |
| 20 | Rose of Lima herself did not write her memoirs , or anything else , so her subjective understanding of this painful phenomenon is not really known ; what is known is that she offered her life explicitly for the conversion and salvation of those suffering people — one of the reasons , obviously , why she later seemed an appropriate patron for the New World . |
| 21 | What is known is that this last pre-Roman culture had a vitality and civilization that compared with that of the Greeks . |
| 22 | What is known is that the founder-members of this century 's most influential occult order , The Golden Dawn . |
| 23 | What is known is that the truce will only hold till the losing interest group can find the opportunity to create another conflict which it might win . |
| 24 | What is known is that some of the islands definitely do move and this is no mere illusion . |
| 25 | All that is known is that Tethlis died that day , and lacking his driving presence the armada turned back from Naggaroth . |
| 26 | What is known is that nearly 8000 young people leave care each year at 18 and many others at 16 and 17 , and are not provided with any semblance of the help and support which a good parent would give not only to these age groups but often to many young people of 19 , 20 or even older . |
| 27 | The plan is officially under wraps until the product 's launch next month , but what is known is that the GIGAswitch will have a switching capacity of 3.6Gbps , 6.25m dynamic connections per second and full duplex Fibre Distributed Data Interchange transmission at 200Mbps . |
| 28 | What is known is that Littlewoods has a virtual monopoly ( over 75% ) of the £750 million pools market . |
| 29 | What is known is that seven deaths on this motorway HAVE been attributed to it . |
| 30 | And part of the reason of course the dialect is gone is that we unconsciously sort of translate what we 're going to say into good English so that we 're understood . |